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...unmasked a plot to assassinate the Foreign Ministers of France, Czechoslovakia and Rumania who are known to have busied themselves in recent weeks over the draft text of a virtual military alliance with Russia to keep Germany in check. Since assassination was the fate of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who first pressed the idea of this "sanitary alliance," the Swiss warning caused Geneva statesmen to surround themselves this week as never before with bodyguards...
...five original drafts of the Treaty of Versailles, property of France's late, great Foreign Minister Louis Barthou who was assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 15), fetched $2,736 this week in Paris at an auction of his library. On the first auction day $69,498 was realized. M. Barthou's collection of erotica having been unrivaled. A comparatively pure item of Napoleon-to-Josephine letters fetched...
SOVIET RUSSIA AND REPUBLICAN FRANCE were changed from secret enemies into secret bedfellows by mounting mutual hate & fear of Adolf Hitler, rabid anti-Red and anti-Republican. Symbol of this Franco-Russian bedding was Soviet Russia's admission to the League of Nations with French Foreign Minister Barthou as chief sponsor. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente...
Eastern Locarno. Assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille was the great French protagonist of a pact to end war in Eastern Europe by mutually guaranteeing all frontiers. This week Louis Barthou's successor. Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, must try to carry on. In French eyes no situation could be simpler: if Adolf Hitler is sincere in his peace protestations, then Der Reichsführer should sign the Eastern Locarno Pact; if Handsome Adolf is insincere, then there is all the more reason why Germany's neighbors should sign, encircling Deutschland with a cordon sanitaire...
...Barthou was pumped full of bullets before he could persuade the British Government to act without Germany. British diplomacy, harping away century after century upon the old string "Divide & Rule," does not readily accept a solution which would screw down everything too tight in Europe...